Administrative setup operations in a production environment typically include some or all of the following:
Administrator security
Setting the password for the default administrative user (admin) (Changing a User’s Password)
Controlling individual or group access to the administrative connection service (Authorization Rules for Connection Services) and the dead message queue (Authorization Rules for Physical Destinations)
Regulating administrative group access to a file-based or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) user repository (User Groups and Status, Using an LDAP User Repository)
General security
Managing the contents of a file-based user repository (Using the User Manager Utility) or configuring the broker to use an existing LDAP user repository (Using an LDAP User Repository)
Controlling the operations that individual users or groups are authorized to perform (User Authorization)
Setting up encryption services using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) (Message Encryption)
Administered objects
Setting up and configuring an LDAP object store ( LDAP Server Object Stores)
Creating connection factories and destinations ( Adding Administered Objects)
Broker clusters
Creating a cluster configuration file (Setting the Cluster Configuration)
Designating a master broker (Managing the Configuration Change Record)
Persistence
Configuring a broker to use a persistent store ( Configuring a Persistent Data Store).
Memory management
Setting a destination’s configuration properties to optimize its memory usage (Updating Physical Destination Properties, Chapter 15, Physical Destination Property Reference)